I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Democrats will still hold a majority in both chambers during the lame-duck session, when leaders hope to pass the DREAM Act to give some undocumented young people and military service members legal status. But after January, immigration reform efforts that include paths to legal status for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States seem next to impossible, meaning the next few years will see little progress for immigration reform advocates.
Several cities that planned to opt out of Secure Communities, an initiative that leads to illegal immigrant deportations, were surprised when federal officials announced the program was mandatory. But local officials aren’t about to give up.
Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate Tom Mullins says he wasn’t making a statement of support for the recently arrested members of a Michigan-based militia group when he wrote in a blog posting that the government is “after the militia” but “the citizen militia is not the problem.”
Governor Bill Richardson ordered more law enforcement officers to the New Mexico-Mexico border today, following the killing of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the border, there have been nearly 600 murders in Juarez, including…
In an address to the press about the failed Christmas Day bombing by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, President Barack Obama called on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to work with the national laboratories to on technology to detect explosives…
Former U.S. Congressman Steve Pearce, who is running for his former seat in Congress, called for the resignation or firing of Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on his campaign blog late Wednesday evening. Pearce cited “three strikes” against…
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano reiterated the president’s stated commitment to immigration reform during a speech at New Mexico State University on Wednesday. Although she could not say when such a proposal will come to the forefront,…
The 2009 Domenici Public Policy Conference will be held today and Thursday at New Mexico State University, and among the high-profile officials scheduled to speak is U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Top-level Obama administration officials in Albuquerque today said they are beefing up the country’s efforts to squeeze the drug flow from Mexico to keep the violent drug cartel turf wars from spilling over onto U.S. soil. All Source Information Center, a.k.a New Mexico’s fusion center, is said to be key to that goal.
Many of the media wondered where Gov. Bill Richardson was Friday when he was a no-show at a University of New Mexico event featuring U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. He is…
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said at the University of New Mexico earlier today that federal officials are doing southbound inspections of rail and vehicles to stop the flow of cash into Mexico and to the drug cartels.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano received a warm, New Mexico welcome Friday. Napolitano grew up in Albuquerque and went to school here.
Today’s meeting of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, featuring Secretary Janet Napolitano, at the University of New Mexico got started shortly after 10 a.m. Watch the archived video stream here:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder will be in Albuquerque on Friday to unveil President Obama’s 2009 National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy.
The two cabinet-level Obama advisers will also be joined by Office…
“I’ve got a job.”
That’s what Janet Napolitano, head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security – and former governor of Arizona — said to New Mexico press today, according to the Albuquerque Journal. She was replying to rumors that…
Last week, the former secretary of the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management was unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate for a position in the Obama administration.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will visit El Paso and Columbus, N.M., on Wednesday as her agency works with local law enforcement to attempt to combat arms and cash smuggling and illegal immigration.
Although then-Sen. Barack Obama voted in 2006 to approve the fence strategy, he said on the presidential campaign trail last year that he would “reverse” Bush-era fence policies in favor of a “better approach,” like deploying more border guards and installing better surveillance technologies.
When Bill Richardson leaves the New Mexico governor’s mansion to become U.S. secretary of commerce, his Democratic lieutenant governor, Diane Denish, will take over where he left off. Although the two certainly have different governing styles, their policy…
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, who was raised in New Mexico, is reportedly President-elect Barack Obama’s top choice as secretary for the federal Department of Homeland Security.
Much of New Mexico’s interest in the president-elect’s selection process has revolved around…
